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CO-OPERATION
Vol. 19
PUBLIC
AFFAIRS
CALGARY, ALBERTA, FRIDAY, MAY 7th, 1954
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TERN FARM LEADER
SOCIAL
PROGRESS .
No, 8
N HOUSE
WHEAT MARKETING SITUATION DISCUSSED
Peak of Storage
as High Today as
in Any Past Year
TWO MIN ISTERS SPEAK
Explanation Given of Initial
Payment Delay—Speculation
About Summerfallow.
OTTAWA, Ont. — Announcing that
the amount of initial payment for
this year’s crop will not be decided
until near the end of the crop year
(July), Rt. Hon, C, D, Howe told the
house of commons Monday that there
are today too many “obscuring”
factors to make a decision possible.
Factors in Decision
Included among these factors are:
the possibility that U.S. wheat in
competition with Canada may be
cut down by as much as 200,000,000
bushels by drought and lowered
acreage; uncertainty on the other
hand concerning the effect of U.S.
wheat policy, and the likelihood that
acreage restrictions and quotas may
do no more than hold the surplus at
its present level (without a disposal
policy that would break the world
market there is little chance of
government stocks being depleted);
present tendency of some European
countries to become less dependent
on North American wheat; and the
usual uncertainties as to weather
conditions,
To set the initial payment here be-
low recent years might have a de-
pressing effect on prices, it is con-
sidered in ‘some circles here, while
without reading the future’ there
might be risk in setting it at last
year’s level,
While no suggestions have been
made, the atmosphere of discussions
in the house suggests that if farmers
were to increase summer fallow
acreage this year, Ottawa might not
be unhappy about it,
By M. McDOUGALL, Press Gallery,
Leader Correspondent
OTTAWA, May 7th. — The delay in
spring seeding caused by unseason-
able weather in the prairie provinces
or at least large sections of the wide
grain belt has doubtless aroused the
question in the minds of many farm-
ers wWhether,this might not be a good
season to increase to some extent
their acreage in summer fallow.
The farmer is the governor of his
own farm, and certainly there is no
question at this time of too little
moisture. In many sections there is
not only ample but too much mois-
ture in evidence, as witness the fairly
recent heavy snowfall near Moose
Jaw, as well as later snowfalls in
Manitoba and elsewhere.
No Suggestion in House
No suggestion on increasing sum-
mer fallow’ acreage has been advanc-
ed in discussions on agriculture in the
house of commons as far as this cor-
ie offic . gam aS Parachutists Ce oll de
This remarkable photograph of a traffic jam in mid-
air that ended happily shows two paratroopers colliding
with one another as the emergency white parachute of
one of them opens during a mass army jump at Fort
in Whd -AUP
Bragg, North Cassiina in which 9,000 men ent part.
The third shute, lowest in the picture, caused further
complications, but all three men managed to untangle
themselves and make a safe landing,
respondent has heard, but it is a ques-
tion that instinctively comes to mind
in relation to the present wheat situa-
tion, that is the crowding of the eleva-
tors. It is something that rests with
the farmers themselves, with a view
to the future, to decide.
Minister Discusses Three Periods
In opening the discussion in the
house of commons on the estimates
of the department of agriculture, the
minister, Rt. Hon. J. G. Gardiner, re-
ferred to cash returns to farmers in
successive three-year periods, which
have shown a steady expansion, For
the years 1943 to 1945 inclusive, the
cash returns to Canadian farmers,
East and West, amounted to $4,987
million; for '46 to ’48 the figure was
roughly $6,219 million; from ’49 to ’51
the amount was $7,558 million. For
the years ’52 and ’53 the figure was
$5,574 million, and if ’54 follows the
trend of early months, the cash re-
turns will be about $8,200 million.
As is well known, Canada, has had
three successive large crops of grain.
Sales of wheat have been on a fairly
constant level year by year, but the
fact that we! have approximately a
year’s crop on hand with a new crop
in prospect in the fairly near future
is the inevitable consequence of the
heavy production of the grain grow-
ing areas. The peak of storage is
as high as at any time, the only
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ee
The tree planting car, sponsored by
the Canadian Forestry Association,
has started its 34th consecutive an-
nual tour of the prairie provinces,
Steel Output Record
LONDON — U.K. steel output
reached a record level in March,
it is announced here, when pro-
duction reached an annual rate
of 18,969,000 tons, comparing
with the previous best rate of
18,876,000 tons,
Will Protest Delay
EDMONTON, May 4th, — President
Henry Young of the FUA states that
a farmers’ delegation will protest
against the delay in announcing
initial wheat payments, He declares
the delay shows lack of courage on
the part of the Ottawa government,
and that it will have a bad effect
on farming and on business,
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| SLOGAN FOR TODAY: “Test and weigh and keep the cows that pay”
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FARM LEADER May 7th, 1954
Grassland Farming and What It Offers the Milk and Cream Producers
HE average age of milk and cream pro-
ducers is calculated to be from 55 to 57
~ years in most milk producing areas. This
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simple fact indicates that milking cows is not |
attractive to young men.
The reason for this situation is the lag in |.
adopting mechanized principles for labor saving ® j :
in dairying, both in the production of feed and $
in the handling and milking of cows.
| Not Entirely Valid
The commonly expressed objection to dairy-
ing, that cows have to be milked twice a day fesse
throughout the year, is not entirely valid if milk-
ing is done by modern methods. Other farm
tasks have to ‘be done twice a day, and city
workers spend that much time going to and from
work. Ready cash from the sale of milk and
cream coming in each week, or oftener, over-
comes the .twice-a-day objection, if improved
methods are used. :
Dairy cows produce more human food from
an acre of grassland than any other type of live-
stock. Ona basis of normal price relationships,
the increased return per acre from milk produc-
Did you make a note of the Date of the
CENTRAL ALBERTA DAIRY POOL'S
29th Annual Meeting
DAY: Tuesday
DATE: June 22nd.
PLACE: Red Deer
LOCATION: Memorial Hall
Business Meeting at 9:50 a.m. |
Banquet at 6:15 p.m. :
GUEST SPEAKER: .
RT. HON. J. G. GARDINER
Federal Minister of Agriculture
Watch for further announcements
tion on GRASS, will pay a higher return than
beef production, and will more than compensate
for the twice-a-day milking. Improved grass-
lands will provide an abundance of good rough-
age throughout the year.
| Great Difference in Cost
Dairy cows can produce 80 per cent of their
maximum productive capacity on good rough-
age alone. The cost, according to reliable statis-
tics, of one hundred pounds of total digestible
ingredients from good pasture is 75 cents com-
pared with $4.00 of commercial grain. Improved
grasslands will carry at least twice the number
of cows that ordinary pastures will. Production
per cow is likewise increased. Dairy cows fed
one
Cows carried on improved pastures need
only half as much grain if they are ordinary pro-
ducers. | |
Thus the cost of feeding and raising replace-
ments is considerably reduced by grassland
dairy farming.
Secret of Success
_ The secret of successful grassland farming
is: | |
1. A perennial legume-grass mixture.
Liberally fertilized land.
Proper grazing and mowing manage-
ment to maintain as nearly as possible
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May 7th, 1954
THE WESTERN FARM LEADER
CENTRAL ALBERTA. DAIRY POOL SECTION
Double Championship
Soa ae
Won by B.C. Holstein
Paes
New records have been made by a purebred Holstein, Thelma, in the herd
. Of Leslie Gilmore, Steveston, B.C., two Canadian and one World Record for
butterfat production in the same lactation.
As a Senior three-year-old she
produced, on twice-a-day milking, in 305 days 889 lbs, fat from 21,703 Ibs.
milk.. Continued on test for the full year she gave 996 lbs. fat from 24,598
Ibs. milk.
Both these butterfat totals establish new marks for Canada
and the 305-day figures is a World Record. Thelma’s 305 days milk record
is second in the World and her 365 day record fifth in Canada in their
classes.
a 50-50 legume-grass mixture.
4 Quality seed.
For more detailed information as to the cor-
rect mixture of grass and legumes for your parti-
cular district, see your
district agriculturist, or
write to him for Circular 63 “Hay and Pasture
Crops for Alberta”.
The C.A.D. Pool again this year is taking
orders for legume and grass seed, as a service
to its members:
see the price list elsewhere on this page.
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comparable situation being in two of
the war years, 1942 and 1943.
Livestock Outlook Considered Good
Of the livestock marketing situa-
tion, the minister said he considered
it favorable. The country has been
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producing cattle and hogs in consider-
able volume, and they have been
marketed. No great difficulty has
been encountered—except during the
unfortunate period of disease — and
Mr. Gardiner did not feel that floor
prices as requested are needed for
cattle. There is the U.S. market to
which this country has been shipping
. and can continue to ship its surplus
cattle, and where this country’s ex-
porters get the current prices for good
steers. The Canadian cattle are, of
course, subject to the import tax. The -
U.S. price is the highest to be ob-
tained anywhere. Freight costs have,
of course, to be deducted as well, but
freight costs are incurred whether
point of shipment is the U.S. or Can-
ada. (Some American raised cattle
are classified in a higher category,
but Canadian cattle get the prices
based on the market price for good
steers established there.) This mar-
ket affords good support at this time
for our"eattle industry, Mr. Gardiner
indicated. -
Sees No Great Hog Problem
In relation to hogs, the minister
said their marketing presents no
great problem at this time, although
that has not been the case in years
past. Most of the pork raised in Can-
ada finds a ready market in this
country. Some cuts are sold in the
United States where they get a better
price than could be obtained any-
where else,
The sales of wheat have been about
the same each year, Mr. Gardiner
said. “It is not a case of our market-
ing less wheat year by year. It is a
case of having grown very much
more wheat than usual over the past
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More Out-Door Vending
Machines for Milk Used
MINNEAPOLIS, Minn, — Out-
door vending machines used by
Land O’Lakes Creameries, Inc.,
are selling an average of 140
half-gallon cartons of milk
each day. By late 1953, the co-
op had 19 of these vending
machines in operation in the
twin cities area, and ten more
are being set up in towns in
southern Minnesota,
three years, and that tends to pro-
duce an accumulation of wheat,”
“Market Can Be Found”
Mr. Gardiner added, however, that
we should not be misled by that fact.
“A market can be found for that
wheat, in part at least,over the years
that lie ahead, but we have no assur-
ance that if we have the same crop
this year we would be able to lower
the surplus that is being carried at
the present time.”
But the minister did not know that
that is a very great hardship to the
farmers. In past years we had gone
through the experience of having to
reduce production from year to year,
with the result that we had not very
much to sell some years as compared
with others, even at good prices. With
the wheat in storage we can take full
advantage of markets available. We
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have been selling regularly,.and sales
this year are not much different in
volume from other years.
Storage in the West is practically
at capacity level, and it will not be
long before we enter another crop
year.
The minister, however, pointed out
that with the index of our wheat
acreage for 1928-29 at 100, our aver-
age acreage today is 101, while in the
U.S. on a similar index for that coun-
try it is 117. This does not represent
the actual acreage in both countries,
but it is based on a corresponding
index for each country.
Our stocks: of wheat, the minister
said: “will be marketed from time to
time and we expect it will bring a
price which will be favorable to the
farmers where that wheat is grown.”
Orders are now being received at any of our
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Stocks are complete now, but will soon be de-
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Vol 19 CALGARY, ALBERTA, FRIDAY, MAY 7th, 1954 No. 8
“BRITAIN, UNITED STATES AND WHEAT”
Speaking before the Canadian Club of
Regina recently on “Britain, the United States
and Wheat,” Graham Spry, agent general for
the Saskatchewan government in the United
Kingdom and Europe, discussed the present
position in wheat marketing. A report cover-
ing part of his address is given elsewhere in
this issue.
Supporting the Canadian Wheat Board and
the International Wheat Agreement, Mr. Spry
expressed his belief in floor prices, affirming
that “the farmer is entitled to the same stabil-
ity and safeguards as any other element in the
community.” He declared that ‘the Wheat
Agreement, with its combination of floor and
ceiling prices on the one hand, and on the
other flexibility subject to market forces with-
in the maximum and minimum prices, is a
desirable, hopeful experiment deserving the
confidence and support it has received from
the farmers of the Canadian west and the gov-
ernment of Canada.” He added the opinion
that “‘the Canadian wheat supply position is
not in itself either exceptional or unmanage-
able,” quoting figures in support of this view,
and pointing out that “it is wealth, and as the
premier said last week in the legislature, a
flood of wheat is better than a storm of dust.”
At the same time, Mr. Spry was critical of
the domestic wheat prices policy which has
been followed in the United States, which has
created surpluses, he _ = said, “that could
threaten our well-being and prosperity.” He
referred to the efforts of President Truman
and now of President Eisenhower to obtain
from congress revised legislation, and suggest-
ed that the’attention of Canadian wheat grow-
ers should be seriously directed to the senate
and house of representatives committee meet-
ings and the debates on the farm bill in con-
gress. . 4 .
MR. LAURIE’'S ARTICLE
The article which we print on this page by
John Laurie came into the office just before
our press time. It deals with a matter to
which wide publicity has recently been given,
and one in which we believe our readers will
be interested.
Mr. Laurie (Chief White Cloud) who has
given most of his leisure for many years to the
service of the Indian people, addressed a con-
vention of the Farmers’ Union of Alberta in
Calgary some years ago. He made a deep im-
pression upon all who heard him. The conven-
tion pledged its support (our recollection is.
that the vote was unanimous) in the campaign
to ensure the rejection of certain proposals
then being entertained in Ottawa which would
have deprived a great body of .our Indian
people of rights which had been guaranteed to
them by sacred treaty. A resolution adopted
by the convention was presented to the Fed-
eral Government.
Mr. Laurie deals in this article with a dif-
ferent problem, and in this, as in other efforts
to clarify for his fellow citizens questions con-
cerning Indian status and rights, his sole mo-
tive is to make certain that justice shall be
done,
Spring in the New Age ;
Time was when with resounding joy we hailed
The spring, triumphant, sweeping through the
land,
But all old ardors seem now to have paled,
Subdued by forces we can not withstand. -
Our eyes are blinded by the speed of change,
Our ears are deafened by its soaring wings.
Our hearts are stunned by terrors new and stange,
The hope is lost that surged through bygone
springs.
Such wonders man creates from day to day
His gifts with those of nature grow confused.
Our powers to marvel wither and decay,
The spirit can no longer be enthused.
Even to Spring's resurgence of the seed,
By which w live, we give but: little heed.
ISA GRINDLAY JACKSON
How About Human Rights for Indians?
By JOHN LAURIE,
Secretary, Indian Association of Alberta
Under the revised Indian Act 1951 any ten members
of a band of Treaty Indians were encouraged to pro-
test against any other member or members of the same
band questioning the latter’s eligibility to enjoy Indian
status. A hearing would follow at | which both sides
might give evidence before a commissioner appointed
by the Indian Affairs Branch at Ottawa. His decision
would in time be forwarded to Ottawa and a final re-
view of the evidence and recommendation would re-
sult in a decision from the registrar of the branch. The
act also provides that, should the decision against the
Indians under protest be returned, the Indians might ap-
peal to the District Court for a final hearing.
Two such trials have been held in Alberta, one at
Samsons Band at Hobbema, and one at Gleichen. The
Hobbema Indians, 103 of them, were accused of being
descended from any one of three common ancestors who
were alleged to have received land script at the turn of
the century or before. The Gleichen group of seventeen
persons were alleged to have been of non-Indian descent.
In both cases, many members of the group were regis-
tered under Treaty at birth, others as infants. In all
cases they are Indian by mode of life, thinking, custom
and language,
To an observer, there seemed to be little evidence at
Hobbema against any of the group. Records produced
and admitted to evidence all appeared to sustain the
right of these people to Indian status. At Gleichen,
press reports indicate that the protesters had no idea
what sort of documents they were signing when they
signed the protest. Press reports indicate that some
signatures were placed on the protest without knowledge
of the alleged signatory. Can such things be in Canada?
The whole thing is fantastic. One point is clear —
most of those signing the protests had small knowledge
of the train of events they were starting. The Indian is
not ready yet for that kind of publicity . . . Seventy-five
years of paternalism have done their worst, and we ven-
ture to say much more than a couple of centuries will be
required to undo the evil done to Indian character.
Let us suppose these people are expelled and thrust
off the reserves. Their assets will be the clothes they
are wearing and a bundle of blankets. Instead of being,
like immigrants, the object of concern and care, they will
be the forgotten:people, doomed to wander the road-
sides like the displaced persons in’ Europe. Eventually
they will have to become recipients of relief and the tax
bill will be larger for the municipality anywhere they
take refuge.
Public opinion, if sufficiently vocal, will be heard on
the banks of the Ottawa river and across Parliament Hill.
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the British in Burma, there might now be
core Indo-Chinas in Asia, not one.’”—Ottawa
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May ‘7th, 1954
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Sees Congress
Action Crucial
for Our Farmers
Methods Used in Disposing of
U.S. Wheat Will Determine
Our Sales
I.W.A. SUPPORTED
Saskatchewan Agent General
for Europe Gives Views
at Regina Meeting
REGINA, Sask.—Expressing
the conviction that ‘the Am-
erican policy now being ham-
mered out in congressional
committees and congress, and
the methods used f6¥ disposing
of the vast American wheat
surpluses, will be crucial in de-
termining the volume of Cana-
dian sales and therefore the
farm storage problem, with its
corollary, the amount of farm
income earned,” Graham Spry,
agent general for Saskatche-
wan in the United Kingdom
and Europe, addressing a meet-
ing of the Canadian Club here,
gave a detailed analysis of U.S.
and British policies in respect
to wheat trading.
Supplies “Manageable”
Mr. Spry said he fully followed the
policies of unanimous support for the
Canadian Wheat Board and the Inter-
national Wheat Agreement passed by
the Saskatchewan legislature, and
while giving significant statistics on
the international market position, he
expressed the opinion that “our wheat
supplies are not excessive; they are
manageable, and sales of Canadian
wheat and flour are being aggres-
Sively pressed by competent represen-
tatives of the government of Canada
in every country in the world, and by
the Wheat Board, as well as by pri-
vate business agents and millers.
“Their efforts, however, will be
critically influenced by the two main
factors operating in the world mar-
kets, first the policy of surplus dis-
posal pursued by the U.S.government,
and second, by the supply position
and buying practices of the United
Kingdom and Western Europe, and
other importing countries, as well as
by the recent favorable harvests in
Australia, the Argentine, Turkey, and
other competing exporting countries.”
Closely analyzing the “90 per cent
parity” policy of the U.S. followed
since 1944, Mr. Spry said that since
this “wise legislation” was ‘adopted
for the purpose of rapidly stimulating
production during the war,’ world
conditions had changed, but American
agriculture had not. Efforts of former
President Truman and now President
Eisenhower, to meet the “conse-
quences of an exaggerated parity
formula based upon cost and price
relationships of a generation ago,”.
were outlined — Truman’s legislation
had been emasculated in congress —
and extension of acreage continued
to be stimulated. It remained to be
seen how congress would deal with
President Eisenhower’s measures.
“Overhang Markets of World”
The American wheat surpluses, said
Mr. Spry, “overhang the markets of
the world and American policies of
giving away “ye selling wheat for
pounds, francs, marks, pesetos, or yen,
of paying wheat for defence works
and military aid in foreign countries,
or otherwise disposing of surpluses,
form a crucial factor inevitably influ-
encing the sale and the price of Cana-
dian wheat.
“It is fortunate indeed that the
THE WESTERN FARM LEADEh
“On the Farm Front” Gives
Broadcast on Farmers’
Tour of Europe in Fall
In “On the Farm Front” the regu-
lar broadcast of the Alberta Federa-
tion of riculture, Don Brinton, the
director, Gevoted most of last Thurs-
day’s period to the Farmers’ Tour of
Europe next October under the au-
spices of The Western Farm Leader,
arranged by Holiday Travel Service.
Mr, Brinton gave an outline of the
tour through England, Scotland, Swe-
den, Denmark, Germany, Switzerland,
Italy, France, Belgium and Holland,
and said he would greatly like to be
able to go on the tour himself,
American administration is so de-
termined to. pursue these policies
without upsetting normal wheat
channels, and to remove vast pro-
portions of them by what is
termed ‘insulation’.”
Canadian Visit Fortunate
“It is no less fortunate that the visit
of the four Canadian ministers to
Washington in March was successful
in reaching such firm and satisfactory
arrangements for the common protec-
tion by each country of the interests
of both in the highly competitive
buyers’ market abroad.”
American good will and the close
working agreement between U.S. and
Canadian governments “should give
us ample confidence, If I do not share
it with the same strength as the fine
people in the government and in pri-
vate trade I have met both in the
United States and Canada, let me
only pray that the next few weeks,
months or 12 months, will condemn
my doubtless faltering judgment,”
U.S. insistence at the I.W.A. confer-
ence on maintaining “a _ theoretical
maximum I.W.A. price of $2.05,” had
“compelled the government of Canada
delegation to choose between Ameri-
can or British accession,” and Canada
“had allied herself with her friendly
but most powerful. competitor against
‘her friendly, resisting but largest
buyer.”
States British View
Mr. Spry agreed with the view of
the U.S. price support program whichf
two presidents had expressed, and, in
stating the British view, he said, “‘I
wish I could say I was in no less
agreement. This is not the case.”
However, he felt he should give a fair
summary of the considerations enter-
ing into British Policy.
“First,” said Mr. Spry, “Britain was
determined to stand on her own feet
and gain a position where no aid,
outside of defence aid, was required.
Without that independence, Britain
could not bear her full weight’ in
shaping foreign policy, ‘and, be it
noted, foreign policy is almost solely
a question of relations with the new
Malenkov regime in Russia.
“Second, the dollar’ cost of wheat .
is the largest single item in the total
dollar imports of the sterling area as
a whole or Britain alone.
“Third, Britain, though restoring
importing to the private trade, and
governed by the Conservatives es-
pousing principles of private enter-
prise, was ready and did agree to a
minimum price of $1.55 in the Inter-
national Wheat Agreement; was
ready to agree to a maximum of
$1.80; and raised that maximum 20
cents to $2.00,
“None of these three stages in nego-
tiations was a manoeuvre to get out
of the I.W.A.; the‘ objective of the
United Kingdom Government, though
not of the private trade, was to re-
main in the I.W.A.
“Fourth, the American demand for
a $2.50 maximum in 1952, repeated at
Washington in 1953, seemed to the
British an exaggerated price in the
then world supply position, with even |
then declining price trends, and to
be based upon parity price support
levels subsidized within United States
by the American taxpayer.
“The British taxpayer subsidizes his
own wheat farmer and of course does
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A.F.A. NOTES
New Radio Director: Com-
mencing the middle of May,
our listeners to the Federa-
tion’s radio program ‘On the
Farm Front” will be introduc-
ed to and will hear a new
voice,
Our new radio director will
be Ron McCullough of Red
Deer. °
Ron is a 1954 graduate in
Agriculture from the Univer-
sity of Alberta, and comes to
us with a first class recommen-
dation plus some radio exper-
ience during his college term.
We feel that Don Brinton,
during the last three years, has
done a very nice piece of work
for the Federation of Agricul-
ture. We know he has many
interested listeners, and we re-
gret the fact that he wishes to
leave us to extend his activi-
ties in other avenues of the
radio field.
During most of the month
Don will be on hand to help
with the detail of his work and’
with the people with whom he
will be closely associated.
* *
Comments from Germany:
I think most of our readers are
aware of the fact that our
A.F.A. President, Mr. Marler,
has been with a farm delega-
tion for the past month study-
ing conditions in Germany
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C.B.C. Commentator
A veteran Canadian journalist who
has covered important events
throughout the world, J. B. McGeachy,
above, brings his considerable know-
ledge of international affairs into use
in such programs as “Weekend Re-
view” and “CBC News Roundup”,
both heard on the CBC Trans-Canada
network, Making his home in Toronto
where he is associate editor of the
Globe and Mail, Mr. McGeachy also
acts as moderator on the quiz show,
“Now I Ask You”, on the same net-
work,
with regard to farm labor and
immigration. .
Naturally the official report
from this delegation will be
made to the Department at Ot-
tawa. However, Mr. Marler
has provided us_ with side-
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By AMELIA TURNER SMITH ~g———
great heritage of beauty” are the cath-
edrals and abbeys and minsters, and
especially the churches of English
cities, towns and villages.
I Share the Inheritance
During a visit to the Old
Country some years ago, the
writer (Canadian born and
bred) saw many very beautiful
and historic old cathedrals.
But perhaps the highlight of
the trip was an afternoon
spent in and around a four-
teenth-century church in an
Oxfordshire village. There my
grandfather had learned the
old hymns he taught me, on an
Alberta farm, many years
later; there his family had
gathered, Sunday after Sun-
day, for years stretching back
into the dim past. I felt that I
shared in the heritage of the
fine old stone building.
"If All Books Were Lost”
Of the treasures these old
church buildings contain, Ivor
‘writing in
London Calling recently, de-
clared: “If all our books were
lost a great part of the history
of our country could be re-
written from the monuments
in our churches. In the can-
opied tombs of the knights and
their ladies the sculptors of
many countries have given of
their best. In the roofs and
screens, the font covers and
pulpits, we see wood carved
with all the delicacy of. lace.
Many of the ‘storied windows
richly dight’ were, alas, des-
troyed shortly after Milton
wrote those words, but such
ancient glass as we have in our
parish churches rivals any in
the world.”
Before the Normans Came
Three hundred of the
churches of England were
built before the Norman inva-
sion; eight thousand were
standing when Columbus dis-
covered America.
These ancient and beautiful
buildings are the heritage not
only of the people living in Eng-
land today, but of English-
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The great dome anid towers of St. Paul's Cathedral rise above
May 7th, 1954
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the streets and buildings and bombed-out spaces of the city of
London. During the war the historic building was in danger not only
of direct bomb damage, but of bombs in the area interfering with
the flow of underg.:
d springs. Had this occurred the foundations
might have been urmMermined, as the cathedral is built over wet
sand. In the foreground of the picture are the River Thames and
Blackfriars Bridge.
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speaking people in all paris of
the world. To people nourished on
English literature and English
history, they are a very vital link
with the past.
A National Shrine
One—of England’s greatest
churches is St. Paul’s Cathed-
ral in London — second only
to Westminster Abbey as a na-
tional shrine. It is said to
stand on the site of the Temple
of Lud, worshipped by the an-
cient Britons, and of the later
Roman Temple of Diana, In
the seventh century’ the
church of St. Paul was built by
| King Ethelbert for the first
| Bishop of London.
This seventh century church
| was burned down in the elev-
| enth century — already an old
church! — and the Normans
took two hundred years to
build the great “Old St. Paul’s’”’
| which stood until the Great
Fire in 1666. It was larger and
higher than the present build-
ing and in a London less
crowded than the city of to-
day it must have been an im-
posing spectacle indeed.
P In Saxon Times
In Saxon times, the Folkmote was
summoned by the ringing of the bell
of the first St. Paul’s. Beside the
Norman church stood St, Paul’s Cross
where Londoners of those days stoo
in the open air to hear orations on
religious doctrines, on political ques-
tions, or on any matters the speak-
ers wished to expound. This tradi-
tion is carried on to this day in the
Sunday speeches heard in Hyde Park.
St, Paul’s Cathedral— the present
building— was begun in 1675, and
completed in 1710; it was designed
by the great architect Sir Christopher
Wren, It is 525 feet long, the. tran-
sept is 250 feet wide, the inner dome
is 225 feet and the outer, from the
pavement to the top of the cross, is
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Many Historic Churches
St. Mary Woolnoth, left. above, escaped bomb damage. It stands
in “the City”, near the Bank of England, “sombre and majestic.” _It
was first mentioned in records of 1191, and was rebuilt in 1716-27.
One of many London churches to suffer from Nazi bombs was St.
Dunstan’s-in-the-East, right, near the Tower of London and London
Bridge, rebuilt by Wren in 1689.
A plane tree, mentioned by Sir
Walter Raleigh, still stood beside it at the beginning of World War
Two.
366 feet. It is the seventh largest
church in Christendeom,
St. Paul’s has many monuments
to great men of the past— many of
them military and naval heroes, Both
Wellington and Nelson are buried
there, and among many others are
monuments to Kitchener and Roberts.
A “Painters’ “Corner”
But there is a “Painters’ Corner,” as
there is a “Poets’ Corner” in West-
minster Abbey, There are memorials
to the writer Dr. Samuel] Johnson, the
composer Sir Arthur Sullivan, the
poet John Donne, the philanthropist
John Howard, the explorer Robert
Scott, and to Florence Nightingale,
one of the few women so honored.
Memorials to the Little Known
There are many other memorials,
some to people little known now,
and some to men whose claims even
to “the passing tribute of a sigh”
might be doubted in the light of pre-
sent knowledge and present senti-
ment,
Saxon kings were buried under
Old St. Paul’s, as were famous people
of mediaeval times— John of Gaunt,
Thomas Linacre) Sir Philip Sidney, to
“Mame a few. .
Nazi bombers destroyed and dam-
aged many cathedrals and churches;
but St. Pa@l’s stands, part of the
heritage of the past, May it not be
destroyed by the more devastating
bombs which science has now de-
vised, ~
EA Senta lee
LONDON, Eng. — Proposals for a
new Singapore constitution include a
cabinet with a majority of portfolios
held by elected members,
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Co-ops Need To Be Ever
On Alert re Legislation
“Co-operatives need to be ever on
the alert lest some new politica] in-
fluence could change for the worse
the status they have achieved after
years of struggle,” writes Norman
F, Priestley in the Alberta Co-opera-
tive Union Bulletin, a news letter
which he issues as secretary of the
Union,
“We in Canada tend to follow the
trend of the United States in these
and other matters, It has been noted
by co-operative leaders in the U.S.A.
that the constant lobbying of the so-
called National Tax Equality Asso-
ciation has its effect, The Congres-
sional Record of Proceedings and De-
bates of Thursday, January 21st, 1954,
contained the budget message of
President Eisenhower: in which the
following statement occurs:
“‘The review of the present tax
system of the treasury department
has not led to final conclusion in
many other situations that require
further study before any recommen-
dation for change can possibly be
made, THESE SUBJECTS INCLUDE
THE TAX TREATMENT OF CO-
OPERATIVES and other organizations
that are wholly or partially exempt.’
“At the present time there .are
several Alberta co-operatives seeking
definition of their status or adjust-
ment of income tax assessment, They
are being assisted in preparing and
presenting their cases by the Co-
operative Union.”
The Bulletin calls attention to the
coming Farmers’ Tour of Europe
under the auspices of The Western
Farm Leader,
Claim Largest Storage Unit
Union Equity Co-operative Ex-
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$5,000,000, 16-million bushel wheat
elevator at Enid, Oklahoma, is the
largest single storage unit in the
world, When the elevator is complet-
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“of more than 60 million bushels of
storage space;
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U.K, steel production was an all-
time record for the month, in
February ‘this year.
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WORLD CHRONICLE
April 13th.— Eisenhower suspends
Dr, J, R. Oppenheimer, leading physi-
cist, as atomic defence adviser; stat-
ed security risk, U.S.S.R. embassy of-
ficial in Canberra, V. Petrov, tells
Australian authorities he has evi-
dencé of spy ring, given asylum.
Malan seeks talks with London;
wants three British protectorates,
Basutoland, Swaziland and Bechu-
analand, placed under South African
control,
April 14th. announces
armed forces will be maintained on
continent as long
as threat of ag-
gression continues.
Bevan resigns from
Labor “shadow
cabinet” in pro-
test against sup-
port given by ma-
jority of party to
Dulles’ southeast
Asia project, Lead-
ing British authors
protest publishers’
demands for cut in
movie, radio, TV
rights on new au-
thors’ books, Two
former heads’ of
U.S, atomic energy
commission, Lili-
OPPENHEIMER
enthal and Dean, offer to testify on
Oppenheimer’s behalf.
April 15th.— Returning to Wash-
ington, Dulles says trip to London.
and Paris has advanced his southeast
Asia plan, “Cold war’ may last hun-
dred years, declares U.S, Admiral
Radford,
April 16th. — Vietminh bring up re-
inforcements; in drive against Dien
Bien Phu; French welcome two U.S.
aircraft carriers On manoeuvres in
waters off Indo China, High admini-
stration official says Oppenheimer is
loyal American. Eisenhower states
“fair share” of U.S, troops to be kept
in Europe, American troops may be
sent to Indo-China, in event of
French withdrawal, Nixon tells U.S.
editors.
April 18th.—In Easter messages,
Pope Pius and Archbishop of Canter-
bury urge ban on use of atomic and
yeeoeen bombs. Moscow radio re-
_THE WESTERN
N FARM LEADER _
_May 7th, 1954
Chinese Delegates | Gather for ather for Conference at at Geneva
Cranrai
While not —‘‘recognized”’
powers, the Peking Government, of China is strongly
represented and participating actively, especially behind
the scenes, in the Geneva conference which is seeking
a settlement of the Korean and Indo-China questions.
The Chinese delegates are shown above, their leader,
seen in left foreground, Shortly
after the conference opened, Chou and Anthony Eden,
British foreign secretary, dined together.
Premier Chou En-Lai,
ports Vietminh leaders ready to ne-
gotiate cease-fire in Indo-China.
Cairo announces resignation of Na-
guib as premier; Nasser becomes
premier and military governor, From
Bucarest comes report of execution
of Patascanu, former Communist
leader in Romania, on conviction as
traitor, Washington reports Canada
will soon be asked “voluntarily” to
-reduce exports of lead and zinc to
US.
April 19th.— Dulles says unlikely
that U.S, will send troops to Indo-
China, UN votes to set up _ sub-
committee on control of hydrogen
weapons; Britain, U.S., Russia, France,
Canada, to be members, French still
hold five of original eight strong
points at Dien Bien Phu; supplies
dropped by Flying Boxcars, manned
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reach 1,300 by March, 1956.
countries, including Britain and
Russia, meet in Geneva on east-west
trade talks, Opening new university
in Ceylon, Duke of Edinburgh stresses
need of “men and women of highest
integrity and moral strength” to con-
trol powers of science, Premier resigns
post as Communist party head in
Romania; — is third east European
country to adopt “collective leader-
ship” principle,
- April 2lst.— Queen observes 28th
birthday. In Washington, defence
secretary Wilson confirms report U.S,
planes are flying French paratroopers
from Paris to Dien Bien Phu, French
defenders of Dien Bien Phu driven
back into area about one and one-
quarter miles across, Peiping official
newspaper declares China won't
“take lying down” any armed aggres-
sion directed against. her. Dulles
reaches Paris, goes into conference
with Bidault, McCarthy complains
that proposed reforms in procedure
of his committee would make it im-
possiblé to continue “as an effective
instrument,”
April 22nd, London Financial
Times states that Argentina and
France have been to large extent
replacing Canada, U.S. and Australia
as suppliers of wheat to U.K., but
anticipates increase in U.K. imports
from Canada. U.S. army secretary
Stevens, in Washington hearing,
denies absolutely having urged Mc-
Carthy to go after other armed ser-
vices and leave Army alone, U.S.
authorities in Bonn state that a Rus-
sian secret police captain has con-
fessed to being one of a three-man
team despatched to West Germany to
kill member of anti-Soviet organiza-
tion, Tokyo reports over thousand
business leaders held on_ bribery
charges,
April 23rd. — Australia turns down
request from Moscow that Petrov be
returned to Russia.as a criminal. Rus-
sia cuts diplomatic relations with
Australia, Paris reports that France
ported to be in good form, and carrying great weight in
the public and private discussions,
of the conference are Britain, the U.S., France and
Russia, while North and South Korea are present on
invitation as is Vietnam, and a delegate from Vietminh
will soon be present.
Foster Dulles has returned to Washington his place be-
ing taken by General Bedell Smith. Eden rejected with
vigor Communist proposals for a Korean settlement,
Official conveners
U.S. Secretary of State John
Adviser Under Colombo Plan
REGINA, Sask, — A, H. MacDonald,
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Saskatchewan since 1947, will serve
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men’s co-operatives in Ceylon, under
the Colombo Plan,
will seek arrangements for immediate
cease-fire in Indo-China, at Geneva
conference.
April 24th, — French lose northern
half of Dien Bien Phu airstrip to at-
tacking Viet-minh,
April 25th —
Emergency cabinet
meeting held in
London; Eden, fly-
ing to Geneva, -is
reported to have
told Dulles Britain
cannot give mili-
tary aid to French
in Indo - China.
London _ reports
new Trieste offer
from Tito.
Apirl 26th,
Geneva conference
opens; Eden in-
strumental in ar-
ae ‘ee, ranging compro-
mise plan for
DE CASTRIES chairmanship. In
Moscow, Malenkov tells supreme
soviet that if atomic attack should be
made on Russia the “Aggressor would
be crushed by the same weapon.”
Russia rejoins ILO; (her membership
lapsed in 1939). New Zealand lowers
tariff bars against Canadian, Ameri-
can, manufactured goods,
conference with premiers of Pakistan,
Ceylon, Burma and Indonesia; says
conference will try “in all humility to
make suggestions.” Churchill an-
nounces Britain will not intervene in
Indo-China, pending outcome of
Geneva meeting.
April 28th. — Washington reports
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By NORMAN F. PRIESTLEY,
Secretary, ACU
OR some months past edu-
fF cational field work of an
intensive nature has
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pices of Alberta Co-operative
Union. In the closing months
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as northern representative of
the Co-operative Union.
Work of Unusual Character
The unusual character of Mr.
Ryan’s work is his concentration for
two or three weeks in the area tribu-
tary to a co-operative store. He first
secures the interest of the local board
and arranges to meet them. They
discuss a particular project or special
need and decide on a campaign; it
may be to raise money for a new
building or to introduce a strictly
cash policy. It may be just to inspire
new interest, especially among young
people.
The territory is mapped out to
cover a*period, usually two full weeks
with five or six meetings a week.
Dates are decided and each director
undertakes the job of engaging the
school-house or community hall for
his particular night or nights, and
-holds himself responsible for all the
details in connection with the meet-
ing at that point.
Visits Farm Homes With Directors
The directors take turns in accom-
panying Mr. Ryan around their res-
pective areas during the day, visiting
the farm homes. At each school or
hall moving pictures with sound are
shown, usually a film on some co-op-
erative theme with other films of an
educational nature and the inevitable
comedy. Short addresses by Mr. Ryan,
and perhaps the directors for the dist-
rict, are the prelude to a discussion
on various aspeets of co-operation
and on the policies and methods of
the particular co-operative serving the
district,
These. discussions are not confined
to co-operative store interests, only.
They have turned ‘on occasion to the
work and products of Canadian Co-
operative Implements Ltd. or to the
policies of Co-operative Life Insurance
Company or Co-operative Fire and
Casualty Company. They have result-
ed in some instances in steps to the
formation of a local Women’s Co-op-
erative Guild or a credit union. At
the close the ladies have almost in-
variably served refreshments,
Rally Climaxes Series
_Climaxing the series of local meet-
ings is a rally at the central point on
Friday of the last week. Other pic-
tures are shown, An address is given
by a speaker from outside. Mr. Ryan
gives a summary of the events of the
series. Sometimes another question
period is conducted. Members and
friends, young gand old, join in a
dance into the’ small hours, broken
at midnight by a lunch which serves
to get people together chatting aver
their common interests — happy end-
ing to weeks of steady going, many
times in the face of severe weather
and bad roads. None is happier to
see the series come to a successful
conclusion than Mr. Ryan. He has
become known in the meantime as
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lights and impressions gained
as he has visited different
points in Germany and on
their stop in Austria.
In Mountains, Austria
From Austria Mr. Marler reports:
“We are in the mountains here and
it has been snowing for the last
two days and nights. In fact, it has
been raining nearly all the time since
we arrived on this side, with the
temperature not over 40 above.” (Up
to early in May we could still beat
that in Alberta — J. A. McF.)
“With regard to general impressions:
your first observation as you drive
through Germany is that you are
in the midst of a prosperity period,”
reports Mr. Marler. ‘Their people are
well dressed, healthy looking and
busy, moving hurriedly to and from
their work. It is interesting to note
a much greater variety of transporta-
tion facilities than we have in Canada.
Their stores are full of merchandise
and plenty of food.”
Besides meeting and conferring with
many government officials, Mr. Mar-
ler has been able to renew his ac-
quaintance with Dr, Hermes, whom he
met at the I.F.A.P. annual meeting in
Paris in 1948, and again at Guelph in
1949. The delegation has also met
with the Federation of Farmers for all
Germany.
Points of call have included such
places as Karlsruhe, Bonn, Berlin,
Munich, Hanover, Bremen and Ham-
burg. When Mr. Marler wrote us,
the work was to be concluded with
a couple of days in the Netherlands
and England.
As Mr. Marler was due to leave
for Canada on May 4th, he may be
back and busy at the A.F.A. office
as you read these comments. ~
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CORRECTIONS
W. H, McEwen, who summarized a
group. discussion on relations. be-
tween wholesales and local co-ops at
the Congress of the Co-operative
Union recently, is general manager of
Maritime Co-operative Services.
regret that a typographical error in
Norman F, Priestley’s report of the
Congress, in our last issue, moved Mr.
McEwen’ westward to Manitoba.~
Through a typographical] error. The
name of the German type of co-
operative ‘‘Gemeinschaft’” was mis-
pelled in the article.
“Pat”, and is on familiar and friendly
terms with officials and members and
has met many people who were not
previously interested in co-operatives.
Communities Visited
The series of meetings have been
held, with some variation in method,
at the following points to date: Grand
Centre, Innisfree, Bonnyville, Rocky
Mountain House, Dewberry’ and
Evansburg. Preliminary work has
been done with a view to similar
series at Eaglesham and Battle River.
Arrangements. are completed for a
series of thirteen meetings in the
Wetaskiwin area, June 4th to 18th;
and discussions have been held at
Waskatenau about a series for that
month. During the summer it is
planned to hold co-op picnics and
open air night shows.
There is no doubt that the empha-
sis on co-operative principles, the ex-
position of sound business practice
and the fellowship in building co-op-
erative enterprise which characterize
these meetings, give the co-ops of
the district a great lift and prove
that there is a union of co-operatives
from which assistance reaches into
those communities. We expect to see
the results in greater solidarity and
renewed interest in the whole co-op-
erative movement for years to come,
We
‘FARM LEADER
Prize Money Increased
Prize money in livestock classes at
the 1954 Calgary Exhibition and
Stampede is being increased by over
$3,000, to a total of $28,431, an-
nounces M, E, Hartnett, general "man-
ager. Nearly $2,000 of the increase
has been allotted to the cattle divi-
‘sion, and an extra $800 will be al-
located to the Sheep section. Prize
money for the Suffolk breed will be
increased by $200 in recognition of the
fact that the Suffolk show at the Cal-
gary Exhibition is one of the strongest
on the continent, states Mr, Hartnett.
Classes will-be provided for the first
time fer Corriedale and Cheviot sheep.
Additions have been made to the
heavy horse prize money, and to the
Yorkshire swine classification. The
Exhibition and Stampede will be held
this year July 5th to 10th.
DESCRIBES AID TO MOVEMENT
Over the years, United Grain
Growers Limited has paid out in ex-
cess of $600,000 in grants to farm
organizations and in farm young
people’s work, and another $1,000,000
has been paid in dividends to farmer
members, writes Mrs, Vera Gillespie,
(121) 9
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WINNIPEG, — Sales of inter-
provincial Co- -operatives Limited
rose-to $12,450,205 in 1953, it was
reported to the recent annual
meeting in this city. Branches
are now established at Toronto,
Saskatoon, and Vancouver, with
the head office here; a bag factory
is operated in Montreal, a can-
nery at Beamsville, Ontario, a
chemical plant here and a food
factory in Vancouver. George
Urwin, Saskatoon, is president,
W. J]. McSorley, Winnipeg, is
vice-president and ]. E. Nephew,
Woodstock, is the third member of
the executive. ]. R. Love, Edmon-
ton, is the Alberta director.
reporting a meeting held at De-
Winton recently under the auspices
of the UGG. This organization, she
continues, “consider their greatest
service to the farmer is in the better
service and better returns they give,
and in action as a controlling factor
in keeping elevator charges down.”
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6 It sometimes seems that our world
is very wide, our peoples very differ-
ent and sometimes it seems aS
though there would never be a com-
plete understanding of each other.
Our daily papers and our radio an-
nouncers describe differences which
are very wide and look like almost
unbridgeable gaps.
Still, when we stop to think and to
hear other versions of life of today,
we feel greatly cheered by the pro-
gress that is being made in the en-
deavours by many to understand and
to help each other, And the threaten-
ed horror of the atomic bombs may
be a great step toward realizing that
we must have peace on the earth if
we are to survive.
Seeking to Know Each Other
The endeavour to get to know
and help each other seems to be not-
ed in almost every field. World con-
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life are held for that purpose. Today
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Comments From Different Countries
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An International Conference on Education
ways been of the firm belief that only
through education would the world
be saved from itself.’ As he had
listened to what the representatives
of each country had to say about their
problems, difficulties, hopes and as-
pirations, he had been struck by the
amazing similarity of people all over
the world, Unfortunately, he said, em-
phasis is placed, not on this simi-
larity but on the differences between
people, and, “from this arise most
of the struggles of the world.”
I might say that I think the prob-
lem common to each and every
country was the scarcity of teachers
and that has oh such a familiar ring!
In Persia, only some 50% of the
young children could attend school.
In India, 60% of those who were of
school age did not attend school,
In addition to having some schools
which are mere huts, Pakistan has
the difficulty of deciding on the lan-
guage problem, as two main languag-
es are spoken there, one in the East-
ern part the other in the Western.
The English language was the one
used in the higher education,
From Portugal and Greece
From Portugal came the comment
that those in charge were convinced
of the necessity of giving a fresh im-
petus to education and of granting
to nature and art the place which too
long has been withheld from them in
primary education. A further com-
ment from there was that the teacher
should know children and try to un-
derstand the behaviour of each, It
was not a question of laboratory
psychology limited to tests, but of a
living and active psychology,
From Greece came the warning that
only mediocre students in other sub-
jects would enrol in educational
faculties so long as the salaries of
teachers were lower than those in
other liberal professions.
I could go on and on, but these
few notes from the different coun-
tries may have interested you. I shall
add only a closing report from Liberia,
That was that hair-dressing is an
important feature of the Beauty Cul-
ture School founded there in 1951,
Yours sincerely,
H. ZELLA SPENCER.
News of Women’s Locals
Mrs, Hugh Parry was hostess to a
recent meeting of Three Hills FWUA.
Mrs, C. R, Braithwaite was guest
speaker at a recent meeting of Ever-
green FWUA,
Pathfinder FWUA (Myrnam) de-
cided to send a gift to a polio patient
- from the district.
Sunniebend FWUA, writes Mrs.
Adair, are helping finance the sending
of two delegates to farm women’s
week, ,
-
Chinook FWUA will hold a handi-
_ eraft display in the autumn, writes
Mrs, Kinzell, the secretary. From this
display will be selected items for the
exhibit at the Annual convention,
Good used clothing for the Red
Cross will be turned in, in response
to roll call, at the May meeting of
Irvine FWUA, Their Daffodil Tea and
home cooking sale proved very suc-
cessful,
(Continued on Page 13)
May 7th, 1954
The Western Farm Leader
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Program Announced.
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lor Farm Young People’s Week
To be held at the University of Alberta from June 8th
to 16th inclusive, the Thirty-sixth Farm Young People’s Week
— the oldest of the university’
s extension courses — is likely
to prove, judging by the program, an outstanding event of
the year for those who may have the opportunity to attend.
The week’s events have been
arranged under the. direction
of the extension department of
the university, in co-operation
with the faculty of agriculture
and the school of household
economics.
Full information can be. ob-
tained from the extension de-
partment of the _ university.
The total cost per person will
be $28.
FUA Juniors’ Annual Business Session
An important feature of the week
will be the annual business session of
the junior branch of the Farmers’
Union of Alberta, with Ronald Pollock,
president, in the chair,
While lectures and discussions and
visits to various places of interest
will occupy much of the time of the
young people, there will be ample
time for recreation, in social gather-
‘ings and sports.
Scholarships And Prizes
A number of _ scholarships and
other prizes will be awarded, includ-
ing scholarships provided by the Al-
berta Department of Agriculture from
the Wheat Board Monies. Trust;
(value $75 each, one for a boy and
one for a girl),
Two prizes of $50 each will be pro-
vided by United Grain Growers in
the general proficiency competition;
while the FWUA will provide three
prizes ($10, $5 and $2) in the house-
hold economics judging competition.
Awards for the winners in the public
speaking contest ($15, $10 and $5)
will be given by the UFA Central Co-
operative; and Maple Leaf Petroleum
will provide the prizes (of $10, $8, $6
and $4) in the weed identification
competition,
The Alberta Wheat Pool offers five
prices (of $10, $8, $6, $5 and $3) in
the grain judging competition, In
the livestock judging competition, the
ALC will give prizes of a cup to
be retained for one year and $5 for
the highest award, with other awards
of ($5, $4, $3). Sports cups for the
boy and girl who win the highest
number of points at the field day
will be given by Jack Marshal]. __
' §$ome Features of Week
The young people will be welcomed
to the University Convocation hall on
June 9th (the previous day having
been devoted to registration and a
social evening), and each day will
begin thereafter with “Morning
Thoughts” by Dr. E, J, Thompson,
principal of St. Stephen’s college.
Boys and girls together will hear
talks by W. J. Harper, vice-president
of CCIL, on “The Yardstick of Civiliza-
tion”; Dr. A, J. Cook, student advisory
services, on “What the University
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ladder to do his work. A dull pain in his
shoulder and leg was almost unbearable.
The druggist recomniended T-R-C’s. My
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day was over he was back at work again.
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Has to Offer’; R. M. Putnam, assistant
deputy minister of agriculture; D, C.
Thornton, educational director of the
UFA Co-operative (who will show the
Alberta co-operative film); Mrs. W.
C, Taylor, president of the FWUA, Dr.
L, P. V. Johnson, department of plant
service, on “People, Food and the
UN”; C. F. Bentley of the department
of soils, on “Agriculture in Ceylon”;
and Donald Cameron. Community
Singing will be led by Duncan Camp-
bell of the department of extension.
On Sunday there will be a special
service in convocation hall, conducted
by Rev. Canon Nainby, with the choir
of Holy Trinity church participating.
There will be a pipe band concert in
the afternoon, under the direction of
Pipe Major Harvey Hogan of the
Royal Canadian Artillery.
Col, E. W. Cormack and §, O.
Hillerud of the Department of Exten-
sion, headed by Donald Cameron,
M.Sc., will be in charge for the Uni-
versity,
Subjects for Boys
Among the leaders in the various
subjects for boys will be Dr. J. E.
Bowstead, animal science department,
on Breeding Methods for “Livestock
Improvement”, and on “Proteins,
Minerals and Vitamins’; Dr. W. G.
Corns, department of plant science on
“Weeds”, and “Weed Identification”
competition; Dr, J. E, Fitzsimmons,
department of plant science, grain
judging; J. B. Dabinett, Alberta Wheat
Pool, “Grading and Judging Grain”,
Prof. B. T. Stephanson, agricultural
engineering, “The Combine”; D. C.
Thornton, educational director UFA
Co-op; Prof. B. Hocking, department
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of entomology, “Insects in the North-
land”’,
The Girls’ Program
Dr. R, J. Hilton will speak to girls
on “The Care of House Plants’, and
Propagation of Plants; and other sub-
jects especially for girls will be:
“Poultry Production” by Dr, C.: R.
Clandinin; “Taste in Dress Fabrics
and Dress Designs” by Miss Helen
Bentley, specialist in applied art;
“Libraries and Librarians”, by Miss
Flora M. Macleod, university extension
library; (who will also present a film
at a joint session on ‘Good Manners’);
“When to Freeze and What to Freeze”
and “Girl’s Career in Home Econo-
mics”, by Miss Hazel McIntyre, de-
partment of home economics; Prof, R,
H, Knowles, horticulture, ‘Flowers and
Shrub Gardening”; ‘Modernizing the
Farm Kitchen” by Miss Carolyn Jud-
son, department of agriculture; “Fruit
and Vegetable Culture’, by D. Evans,
horticulture; “Electricity in Your
Home’, by Miss Priscilla Mewha of
the department of agriculture,
School of Religion Will
Meet at Gull Lake
Meeting at Meridian Beach on Gull
Lake, west of Lacombe, from July
27th to August 6th, the Alberta
School of Religion will consider a
number of the major problems of the
present day, as well as historic sub-
jects, the program including “The
Church and the World Crisis” by Dr.
Jerome Davis, one of the visiting lec-
turers, Other leading visiting lectur-
ers will be Dr, Albion King, whose
subject will be “Alcoholism and the
Christian Witness,” and Dr, Robert
Montgomery on “Jewish and Christ-
ian Thought in the First Three Cen-
turies.” Full information may be ob-
tained by those interested by writ-
ing Rev. S. R. Hunt, Turner Valley, or
Rev. H. M. Horricks, the president of
the school, Redcliff,
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U.S, deficit for current year may
reach $4 billions raising national debt
to $274 billions. At Geneva, speeches
of Dulles and Chou En-lai take widely
differing positions on Korea. Britain
hands Gold Coast control of domestic
affairs, as first step towards full in-
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On the average about 20 per cent
of Alberta’s wheat is seeded by the
end of April. This year the season is
unusually late and the only seeding
completed so far has been a little at
the odd point in southern Alberta
which was done in mid-April.
Seed Time and Yield Little Related
The fact that seeding is much later
than usual should cause no alarm,
however, since over the years there
appears to be little, if any, relation
between time of seeding and crop
yield. In 1952, when the average
yield of wheat in Alberta was 26.9
bushels per acre, the highest in many
years, no seeding had taken place by
April 30th, In 1942 the average yield
of wheat was 26.8 bushels and about
one-third of the wheat had been seed-
ed by the end of April. The smallest
yield harvested in Alberta in many
years was 8.8 bushels per acre in 1936,
and that year only 8 per cent of the
wheat had been seeded by April 30th.
The following year, in 1937, wheat
averaged only 9.7 bushels per acre
and 47 per cent had been seeded by
April 30th,
Prospects Fairly Bright
Prospects for this year’s crop are
fairly bright, Moisture in summer-
fallow is generally good and in stub-
ble fair to good, Indications are that
wheat acreage, in Alberta will be
down about 5 per cent from the
6,340,000 acres sown to that crop last
year. Oats may be up 2 per cent and
Asians”, Australia suggests elections
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international supervision, Soviet of-
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CALGARY STOCKYARDS, May 5th.
— Hogs sold yesterday $35, Bee one’s
$34, sows $20.50 to $21.25, good, lambs
$20 to $21.25, Good +to near choice
butcher steers were $18 to $19, down
to $14 for common; good to near
choice heifers, $16 to $17, down to
$13; good cows $12 to $13.50; good
to choice veal calves $21 to $25; good
stocker and feeder steers $15.50 to
$17,
The Dairy Market
Special cream, to producers, is 59
cents; No. 1 is 57, No, 2 is 48 and off-
grade 42. First-grade butter, in
prints, wholesale, is 60 cents,
Egg and Poultry Market
CALGARY — Egg prices remain, to
producers, at 30 cents for A large, 28
for A medium, and 25 for A small. B’s
are 22 and C’s 18. Dressed chicken,
under 4 lbs, are 32 for Grade A, 28
for B and: 20 for C. Dressed fowl,
under 4 lbs, are 21 down to 10; 4 to 5
lbs., 24 down to 13; over 5 lbs., 26
down to 15.
barley 1 per cent. But as the season
is late, further unfavorable weather
could cause a greater switch from
wheat to coarse grains, .
In the southern United States, which
has been suffering from _ severe
drought for some time, rain has fallen
and conditions are considerably im-
proved. However, further rain will be
needed before long, as moisture re-
serves in the soil are very low.
The latest estimate of production
places this year’s U.S, winter wheat
crop at 678 million bushels, about 200
million bushels less than last year’s
crop. Good rains over the next two
months would increase that estimate
considerably, as was the case last
year when the April estimate of pro-
duction was only 714 million bushels
or about 160 million less than the
fina] outturn,
Conditions in Europe
In Europe, where most of the wheat
crop is sown in the autumn, conditions
are generally satisfactory and the
crop is making good progress, In
Italy, moisture conditions are very
good. France has a large winter
wheat acreage.
250,000 acres had to be reseeded this
spring. The crop in Spain will need
moisture to carry it through, Winter
wheat in the United Kingdom is very
good. Dry weather towards the east
of Europe has cut down crop pro-
spects, mainly in Germany, Hungary
and Turkey,
that while demand for return of Saar
to Germany is “legal and undeniable”
it’s not practical to press for it.
April 30th. —- Pearson supports at
Geneva Australian suggestion on
Korea, '
May Ist.
Edinburgh reach Tobruk after visit
‘to Uganda; Gigantic jet bombers of
new design are arresting feature of
Moscow May Day show,
May 2nd, — New York Herald-
Tribune reports Washington admini-
stration ‘‘in state of frustration bord-
ering on despair’ as result of op-
position to sending aid to French in
Indo-China by carrier planes, Tehran
despatch says international oil com-
panies near agreement on control of
former British oil plants at Abadan.
Dien Bien Phu again under heavy at-
tack,
May 3rd, French General De
Castries reports failure of attempt to
exchange prisoners at Dien Bein Phu.
At Geneva, agreement reached that
Russia extend invitation to Vietminh
representatives, Non-operating rail
employees may take strike vote,
stated in Montreal,
May 4th, — Geneva conference ad-
journs for two days. Vietminh dele-
gation reaches Geneva, Heavy fight-
ing resumed at Dien Bien Phu, Failure
of efforts to shorten McCarthy-Army
hearings reported from Washington.
* May Sth, — Dulles in Washington
confers with Eisenhower,
ee
It reports that only:
May 7th, 1954
CONGRESS ACTION CRUCIAL
(Continued from Page 5)
not misunderstand the right of any
other taxpayer to do likewise. But
the American demand for $2.50 seem-
ed to the British Government, and the
people were in unanimous agreement,
no less than an attempt to make a
subsidized domestic price the world
and I.W.A, price.
Decision Against $2.05
“The United Kingdom, having
' agreed to the really significant price
from the exporters’ point of view —
that is, the minimum price of $1.55,
which protects the exporters and
which alone compels and obliges the
buyer to buy, the importer to import ts
— the British Government decided
not to agree to a maximum even of
$2.05. ‘A little more and how much it
is; a little less and what worlds
away.’
“To the British, studying their dol-
lar reserves, balance*of payments,
and terms of trade, $2.05 represented
not 5 cents more than they were
ready to pay but 25 cents above the
$1.80 they agreed to and on 177 mil-
lion bushels of wheat, the guaranteed
purchase, 25 cents meant $44,250,000
or its equivalent a year.
“The British press argued and the
Government insisted, moreover, that
whatever the supply and world price
conditions, the importers would be
compelled by the concerted arrange-
ments of the three or four major ex-
porters to pay whatever maximum
was written into the I.W.A. or to
look elsewhere for wheat.
“Fifth, it was also the British opin-
ion that greater supplies of wheat en-
titled the consumer to some “chia
benefits.
Comment on $2.05 Maximum
“Up to this point, without agree-
ment or disagreement, I have tried to
express what I understand to be the
British point of view. Here, I do com-
ment on the $2.05 maximum. I have
asked government officers from
several importing countries represent-
ed at the Wheat Council in Washing-
ton if they expected in the known
supply and price situation to have to
pay $2.05. From not one of them did
I receive the answer ‘yes’. Indeed,
when I asked the question, the first
answer was always to explain that
the $2.05 maximum was never an ob-
ligation under the I.W.A, upon the
importers; the importer could buy-his
Wheat anywhere at any price except
in one situation, that is only when
world prices fell to the minimum
I.W.A. price. The. maximum price,
whether $2.05, $2.00 or $1.80, is only
and solely an obligation upon the ex-
porter for the protection of the buyer:
the I.W.A. buyer is only required and
obligated to buy at the minimum,
. never at the maximum.
That Cable From Britain
“Happily at this point, there is no
time to interpret or guess at the ac-
cidents, personalities, illnesses, cables,
telephone calls, the feelings, moods,
even possibly elementary misunder-
standings. at high levels in several
capitals which the _ stars in their
courses seemed to bring against the
I.W.A. More, I am sure than the pri-
vate trade, much more, influenced the
final cable from London to the British
delegation in Washington, and I dare
to assume that the British delegation
had no more idea of the contents of
the cable before its receipt than any
member of any other delegation that
Easter holiday weekend in 1953. This,
I think, was unfair to Canada and a
misfortune with results still un-
known,”
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FARM HOME & GARDEN 1
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Tulips and other spring flowering
bulbs should be allowed to retain
their foliage until it yellows and
dies naturally, It can then be re-
moved without damaging the bulbs,
which should be lifted, dried in the
shade, and stored in a dry warm
place until late September or early
October, when they can be planted
again for another spring’s blooming.
Mock-Angel Cakes: Remove crusts
from loaf of close-textured white
bread, and cut in cubes or blocks. Dip
each piece in sweetened condensed
milk, then roll in a mixture of 1 cup
shredded cocoanut and % cup chop-
ped nut meats, Place on greased pan
and brown in a moderate oven,
turning to’ brown evenly. Cool be-
fore serving,
Cream Puffs: Pour % cup boiling
water over % cup shortening; add
% cup sifted flour and % tsp. salt;
cook together until mixture leaves
sides of pan, Cool, and.add 2 eggs,
one at a time, beating vigorously
until mixture is smooth, then beat an
additional minute, Drop in heaping
tablespoonfuls on greased sheet, 2
inches apart, and bake at 400 degrees
for 15 minutes, then reduce heat to
375 and bake another 30 minutes.
Cool, Slit and fill with ice cream,
whipped cream, or thick stewed rhu-
barb and custard.
Green Peas: For an all-round vari-
ety of garden peas, W. A. Russell of
Indian Head Experimental Farm says
that long-term records show that Lin-
coln (or Homesteader as it is some-
times called) cannot be beaten.
USEFUL BOOKLET
“Irrigating the Prairie Home Gar-
den” is the title of a most useful
booklet which can be obtained from
the Dominion Experimental Station
at Swiff Current, Sask. Use of the
furrow and sprinkler methods of ir-
rigation, with the farm dugout as the
source of water supply, is described.
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Convention Discussions
on High Level at CFA
Discussions at the Canadian Federa-
tion of Agriculture convention were
on a high level, and very practical,
declared Mrs. M. W. Ward, of Arrow-
wood, addressing FWUA conferences
held at High River and Vulcan on
successive days recently, Discussing
“surpluses” of Canadian farm pro-
ducts, Mrs, Ward quoted Lord Boyd-
Orr to the effect that we should fear
the “hungerists, not the communists’”’,
Mrs, W, C, Taylor, reviewing FWUA
activities with regard to education,
income tax, and community property
laws, also spoke at both conferences,
and “was her usual sparkling self,”
writes Mrs, Vera Gillespie. Mrs. Jack
Smith reviewed the book “Wake Up
or Blow Up” and the conference later
passed a resolution urging study of
world poverty and its relief. Mrs.
Lawrence was highly complimented
on her work as Director for this area.
Resolutions Adopted
Resolutions opposed the net worth
and inventory basis for farmers’ in-
come tax returns; pledged support to
the CFA and AFA in their work; sug-
gested a constitutiong] amendment
recognising FWUA conferences; sup-
ported the principle’ of producer
marketing, boards; recommended that
the Provincial Government set up a
laboratory for analyfis of grains and
feeds; suggested release of “Call of
the Land” at a more opportune time;
recommended that no district officer
serve more than two years, and that
official information be supplied to
FWUA vice-presidents; that collec-
tions for Red Cross, cancer funds, etc.,
be spread over a longer period; and
asked the C.P.R. to give better service
at the Vulcan station,
Mrs, Blackburn, Twin Butte, and
Mrs, Pinkerton, Arrowwood, were
named vice-presidents; and Mrs.
Wake, High River, and Mrs. A, Par-
slow, Vulcan, secretaries
NEWS OF WOMEN’S LOCAL
(Continued from Page 11)
Inland FWUA recently presented a
feather quilt to a burned-out family,
and sent $5 to the Red Cross, writes
Mrs, R. Goshko,
Poplar Ridge FWUA, writes Mrs. J.
B, Moore, are co-operating in holding
a tea in Red Deer on Mother’s Day,
in aid of the old folks’ home,
Ascot FWUA (Wainwright) recently
made plans for a bake sale to help
raise money for the Building Fund,
states Mrs, A. E, Rodgers,
Plans for the Red Deer district
FWUA tea on May 8th were made ata
recent meeting of Pine Hill local,
writes Mrs. K, K, Johnson,
“Streamline your housework” was
the title of a talk given by Miss
Mewha recently to St. Albert FWUA
(Morinville),
Crossfield FWUA, writes Mrs. Mc-
Tavish, recently donated $50 to the
building fund, $25 to the local library,
and $6 to the Junior FUA,
A program of sports, supper and
dance is being arranged for Farmers’
Day by Big Stone FWUA, reports Mrs.
Turnbull, in aid of the building fund.
Mrs, Alda Gervais writes that her
local is planning a “Black Diamond
FWUA quilt,” each member making
a block with her name on it.
Myroslaw FWUA made a profit of
$16.70 from a sale of home cook-
ing in the village of Holden, states
Mrs, O. Topilho, secretary,
Arrowwood FWUA recently spon-
sored a showing of the Red Cross
film “They Dance Again” and one
on “Father and Son Agreements,’*
made by the National Film Board, On
another evening Mr, and Mrs, M.
Ward gave splendid reports on the
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WORKING TOGETHER
The principles of co-operation are indeed very
simple,
Co-operation means “working together.” It
unites the productive and service efforts of the
group for the common good of all.
In preference to
profit-seeking, co-operation offers service at cost.
Co-operation does not exist in law or formula.
It grows in ithe -hearts and minds and purposes of
people.
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AFA conferences they had attended,
reports Mrs. M. C. Morton,
In .conjunction with McCafferty
FWUA, Dolcy-Browning local will
sponsor a Red Cross swimming course
for children of the district this sum-
mer,
A \very fine paper on horticulture,
prepared by’ Mrs, C. McGahn, was
followed by a good discussion at a
recent meeting of Clover Bar FWUA,
reports Mrs, G, Clark.
Pelican FWUA (Edgerton) enjoyed
a letter from their “pen pal” in Scot-
land at a recent meeting, and ex-
changed garden hints, Mrs, Ronning
reports that the local’s sale cleared
$73.80,
Donations to the Red Cross and to
the Leighton sports fund were. made
by Barrhead FWUA recently, reports
Mrs, A, W. O’Brien, and half the cost
of a hot plate for the local school
was paid, y
Ranfurly FWUA earned $142.85 by
serving lunches at the bonspiel and
$47.68 from the FWUA dance, it was
reported to a recent meeting. Roll
call was answered with the exchange
of seeds and bulbs,
“Our Junior FUA Queen candidate,
Duane Gottschlich, has won a Rotary
trip to Ottawa, and we are giving her
a going-away present,” writes Mrs.
B. Crooker, secretary of Spruceville
FWUA (Lacombe),
Organization of the Junior local in
the district was discussed at the
April meeting of Delia FWUA, writes
Mrs, Felix Battle; other topics on the
agenda were the PFAA and crop in-
surance, eee
Mrs, T. E. Seale was hostess to
Edmonton FWUA on April 22nd,
when Mrs, McPherson, who with her
husband has charge of the Alberta
(protestant) home for needy child-
ren, In aid of the building fund an
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evening of cards, with showing of
pictures and raffle of a Tug, was
planned,
Sydenham-Gerald FWUA plan to
sponsor a demonstration on sewing
machine attachments, writes Mrs.
Arthur, who states that the local
now has contributed $170 to the build-
ing fund, and is putting on a dance
to add to this total.
The report of the FWUA submission
to the Legislature was read and dis-
cussed at some length by Utopia
FWUA (Twin Butte) recently, writes
Mrs, Marr, and Mrs, Cummins report-
ed on the leadership school held in
Pincher Creek,
By raffling a registered calf (do-
nated), One Tree FWUA raised $120
in aid of the iron lung fund for the
Brooks hospital, states Mrs, H.
Houseman, Recently the local plan-
ned a card party in aid of the One
Tree community centre fund,
Jolly Time FWUA (De Winton) at
a recent meeting heard a report on
Alberta Poultry Producers, and dis-
cussed forming a UFA co-op unit in
the local, Miss Florence Herr is being
sponsored for the health and recrea-
tion course at Red Deer.
“Can you spare a dime or a dollar?”
asks CARE (73, Albert St,, Ottawa).
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THE WESTERN
Hello, Folks!
According to Nan of Nanton, a dis-
arming smile is not enough to estab-
lish peace between nations,
* .
Communication from Mister Gloom
informs us that it’s only because
life is never’an open book that more
people don’t jump in the lake,
* *
ISN’T IT THE TRUTH
Recognition of. human limita-
tions is the first rung on the lad-
der of wisdom.
* *
And lissen, folks, if you’re planning
to burn the candle at both ends you:
will need to find a new kind of
candle holder,
* *
We see where a magazine ar-
ticle declares that Americans now
get forty percent of the world’s
entire income, Perhaps it’s this
kind of inequitable division of in-.
come that sometimes makes it
difficult for a rich UNCLE to keep
on good terms with his poor re-
lations,
+ *
This makes the Bad Egg of
Crow’s Nest declare ‘‘Those Yanks
are getting twice what they are
worth.” Nevertheless we’ll bet that
the Americans feel that’ they are
worth their weight in gold.
* *
NO, IT’S NOT SO NICE
In Winnipeg, Police Chief Chris
Eineld of suburban East Kildonan,
visiting in Winnipeg, got a ticket for
illegal] parking, “It’s. nice to see the
city officers are on their toes,” he
said, as.\he paid his one dollar fine.
Yep, but not so nice to know that
a Police Chief breaks the law.
* *
A B.C, spokesman recently declared
that even the big shows couldn’t coax
the gardeners from their gardens, and
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FARM LEADER
that was too bad for television, As
to which, our home gardener says:
“We gardeners are tele-vise, by that
I mean that we have learned that
some programs could have a lot
more scents, others could be made to
blossom forth with a lot more color
and still others could do with a
good spray.”
» *
Even if things do not look too
rosy for the B.B.C, from this point of
view, one advantage of television is
that if you don’t like a picture you
can always change it,
‘KLEERDU’ For Health
Aunt Eda’s feeling splendid;
When was her step so light?
She’s oh so gay— I heard her say
Her hat is even tight,
In all the years of vain attempts
To find some patent pill,
At last she has the cure-all
For every known ill,
The label gay reads “KLEERDU”.
She spied it days before
Where impish Sam had fixed it
Inside the cupboard door.
And oh the crystal clearness,
Its sparkling, healthful glow!
Sam ponders if a fortune
Could be his with H20.,
—By Miriam Edmunds.
Knotty Frankie tells us that it
would be impossible to. sell Li'l
Goldilocks, our office vamp, an ency-
clopedia, as she already knows all the
answers,
+ +
POME
The weeping willows never weep
Salt tears like mine,
And here’s a fact I beg to state
Pineapples do not pine,
The fir tree never bears a fir,
The bear does not go raw,
And I have never come across
Strawberries wearing straw.
* *
SOMETHING TO REMEMBER
When you feel circumscribed be-
cauSe you can’t make that trip to
Europe, remember “the range of the
mind is the universe” and transporta-
tion is free,
+ *
ONCE UPON A TIME
A Claresholm reader, who is a
writer of children’s stories, has
just returned from a year of
globe-trotting. She of course saw
many strange lands and faces
and found the inspiration to write
the brief FAIRY story_for adults
‘ which follows: “Greenland.”
That’s the whole story But re-
member she says it’s a fairy
tale.
* *
And so, of course, says Chuck of
Chuckawalla, “Iceland” must be a
true story,
* *
YOU BETCHA LIFE, BOYS
Wally, our incurable bach, insists
that when a girl regards a man as a
poor fish it’s sometimes because she’s
discovered he’s no sucker,
+ *
Our office cynic can’t see how the
white dove of peace can settle in
those grand old United States while
jim crow is still nesting there,
* +
HOW TRUE IT IS
Sounds kinda funny, but it’s
when you’re broke that you need
the breaks,
, *
Recently Mary Garden said: “If you
have a great career, why should you
‘ want a man trailing round after you?”
Of course, she was a career girl ex-
clusively, and perhaps the men of
May 7th, 1954
Can: Give Ground Troops
‘Atomic’ Aid in Battle
Capable of engaging tactical tar-
gets far beyond the range of artillery,
this new ‘surface-to-surface guided
missile, which has been christened
“The Corporal”, can be equipped with
either conventional or atomic war-
head, Intended for support of ground
troops’ combat operations, it is shown
just after a take-off at the White
Sands proving grounds of the U.S.
army. A rocket motor drives the
pencil-slim weapon through space at
several times the speed of sound,
her day were too wise to let Mary
“lead them up the Garden” by a pre-
tended interest.
+ +.
Speaking of the effects of the ex-
plosion of the H-Bomb Cynical Gus
declares it’s difficult to figure out
whether it’s the tuna or mankind who
are the -poor fish,
WHAT'S IN A NAME
News item from a small town in
Texas indicates that there may be
something in a name after all, When
Mrs. Harry Serpent applied for mem-
bership in the Eden Ladies’ Club of
Happy Times, the members voted
unanimously against admitting her,
claiming that it would never do to
admit a snake to enter Eden even
with credentials, And so it was the
ladies of the club who did the hissing.
Perhaps Mrs, Serpent should consider
whether this is not the time to
change her name to Smith or Jones
or Brown, the three names that give
their bearers unquestioned entry to
any society and apparently to guar-
antee worldly success,
* *
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This information — and a great
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form in the handsomely produced
“Annual Report 1953” just issued by
Canada’s _ publicly-owned system,
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Complementary Services
While the basic job of the system
is to provide transportation, states
the report, a brief survey is given of
the complementary services. carried
on, basically, to attract traffic. These
services include the chain of ten
hotels maintained across Canada,
from St. John’s, Newfoundland to
- Vancouver (the Hotel Vancouver, it is
explained, is jointly. operated) and
three summer resorts. A Tourist and
Convention Bureau is operated, with
the object of promoting travel, and
a Research and Development Depart-
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Agriculture Department, the Cana-
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Coastal steamers are operated on
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Wewfoundland coastline. There is a
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New C.N.R. Hotel for Montreal
As part of its program of expan-
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hotel adjacent to its Central Station
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and 4,000 at meetings, the new hotel
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2417C 1A St. S.E., Calgary
BELTING
WRITE FOR SPECIAL BARGAIN PRICES ON
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College, 814 Centre St., Calgary, or 9685
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Alberta Distributors:
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FENCE POSTS
LUMBER, CEDAR FENCE POSTS AND PCLES
for sale. C. Ghirardosi, Trail, B.C,
FRESH FISH
FRESH OYSTERS, $6.00 GAL. C.O.D., PLUS
express. Horne Lake Store, Qualicum, B.C.
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5. 6 & 7 Shasta Bldg., Edmonton
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Solicitors for: United Grain Growers
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Co-operative Ltd., Alberta Livestock
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Pool Ltd., Central Alberta Dairy Pool,
ae Association of Municipal Dist-
ricts.
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roel Notary, etc.—228 Lougheed Building,
algary.
H. S. PATTERSON, PATTERSON & MacPHER-
son, Barristers and Solicitors, 218 Grey-
hound Building, Calgary, Alberta. Phones:
23825-21920. :
W. KENT POWER, Q.C., BARRISTER AND
eee 517 - 7th Avenue West, Calgary.
MISCELLANEOUS FOR SALE
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Batteries. Tested, recommended. MGuaran-
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packages $3.00 (C.O.D. $3.35). Reliable
Agency, Box 5-(B20P), Regina, Sask.
FOR ANY BOOK YOU WANT, NEW OR OUT
OF PRINT: write Canadian Forum Book
Service, 16 Huntley St., Toronto 5, Ontario.
PATENTS
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Can. and U.S.) — Advice free and confiden-
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Ave. W., Calgary.
PATENTS
Send for Full
Information
THE RAMSAY COMPANY
Registered Patent Attorneys
273 Bank St.
Ottawa, Ont.
PERSONAL
SEX AND BIRTH CONTROL BOOK BY DR.
Ryeberg, 224 pages, illustrated, colored
charts, 60c including postage. Men's Per-
sonal requirements 24 for $1.00, De luxe
quality 15, for $1.00 postpaid. Free informa-
tion and list of supplies, Modern Supplies,
Box 188-A Vancouver 3, B.C. .
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legal wording. . Send now, avoid family
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Toronto.
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Caigary. ‘
WE HANDLE A COMPLETE LINE OF DRUG
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dollar. Write for new low price list. Stan-
dard Distributors, Box 72, Regina, Sask,
ADULTS! PERSONAL RUBBER GOODS. 24
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Special: All three assortments for $3.75.
Tested, guaranteed. Mailed in plain sealed
package, including free Birth Control book-
let and bargain catalogue of Marriage
Hygiene supplies. Western Distributors,
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SITUATIONS WANTED—FEMALE
YOUNG WOMAN EMPLOYED IN CALGARY
would like farm position where boys seven
and nine would be welcome during, sum-
mer months. Farm experience. Excellent
references. Box 24, Western Farm Leader
or phone 31004, Calgary.
STUCCO, PLASTERING
BOB PATERSON
STUCCO & PLASTERING CONTRACTOR
Town and Country
Phone 23542 or 872793
607 Third St. N.E., Calgary
TIRES
WE HAVE A LARGE STOCK OF USED TIRES
on hand, including tires suitable for imple-
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“THIS YEAR. #
Your Winter Holiday in Europe
WITH
THE WESTERN FARM LEADER
Visit ENGLAND
SCOTLAND
SWEDEN
DENMARK
GERMANY
SWITZERLAND:
ITALY
FRANCE
BELGIUM
HOLLAND
ek AND MEET MR. EUROPEAN FARMER |
A two months excursion, first class through all Europe, the ideal way to mix business with
pleasure. Visit to Experimental Farms, Livestock Expositions, Co-operative Dairy Plants,
Breeding Stations and headquarters of Agricultural Science combined with relaxation at
picturesque Capri Island, sight-seeing in historic London; enjoy the excellent food of Copen-
hagen, wine from the terraced vineyards of the Rhine, and the beautiful countryside of
England and Scotland. The group will leave New York on October 19th.
4 Worth while Excursion You Hav ve Well ?
| Earned!
All-inclusive price from New York back to New York
$1350
Return tickets valid for one year if you want to continue.
in Europe to visit friends or relatives over Christmas.
The tour, especially designed for the Western Farm Leader, will give Canadian farmers an opportunity
to combine an interesting, relaxing and enjoyable trip to Europe with a good inside view of the life.
and activities of the European farmer of today, his ways of production, his organization, and his re-
lations with his government.
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